Debbie Millman and Cy Gavin on Ecologies of Painting

Join painter Cy Gavin and designer, author, and podcast host Debbie Millman for a conversation exploring art and nature. Highlighting a new rotation in the European Paintings galleries “Ecologies of Painting” (Gallery 638), which explores how human and nonhuman histories are intertwined, Gavin and Millman will reflect on the role aesthetics play in defining our understanding of the natural and built environments. Learn more about Gavin’s practice and how he creates interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena.

This program is made possible by the Pearl Ehrlich Fund and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation.


Contributors

Cy Gavin, artist
Debbie Millman, host, Design Matters, and author, Love Letter to a Garden

With an introduction by Anna-Claire Stinebring, Assistant Curator, and David Pullins, Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings, The Met


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